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The failed promise of Web Components – Lea Verou
A spot-on summary of where we’ve ended up with web components.
Web Components had so much potential to empower HTML to do more, and make web development more accessible to non-programmers and easier for programmers.
But then…
Somewhere along the way, the space got flooded by JS frameworks aficionados, who revel in complex APIs, overengineered build processes and dependency graphs that look like the roots of a banyan tree.
Alas, that’s true. Lea wonders how this can be fixed:
I’m not sure if this is a design issue, or a documentation issue.
I worry that is a cultural issue.
Using a custom element from the directory often needs to be preceded by a ritual of npm flugelhorn, import clownshoes, build quux, all completely unapologetically because “here is my truckload of dependencies, yeah, what”.
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pause before redirect (gist.github.com)`window.addEventListener("beforeunload", function() { debugger; }, false)`
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The Web We’ve Made
Let us not overlook the fact that a semantic HTML web site is inherently accessible by default. When we bend the web to our will, we break that. So we have a responsibility to correct it. Sure the new technologies are neat, but the end result is usually garbage. This all requires some next-level narcissism that our goals and priorities as developers are far more important than that of the audience we’re theoretically building software to serve.
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Browser APIs have gotten so much better lately! Way easier to do @oauth_2 PKCE in a browser now:
✅ good random number generators
✅ secure hashing functions
Just missing a good base64 encoding function. (Check out the ugly hack in the post.)
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/05/01/is-the-oauth-implicit-flow-dead#begin-the-pkce-request -
Just published a write-up about @azuread OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Grant Flow in @electronjs with PKCE 👇👇👇
https://link.medium.com/b86pcH8VdU
Another article soon about how to tie this back to a web app without nodeIntegration.
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Cancelling Requests with Abortable Fetch
This is a really good use-case for cancelling fetch requests: making API calls while autocompleting in search.
